Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-10-22

and independence, and the idea OF estab.
lishipg an "old MAIDS hsl!," as one OF
them denominates this departure, is de-
cidediy sove aud courageous.
j. U. Hoffman, the Massachusetts gem
tleman who is looking Yankton over
with an Intention of putting IN d paper
mill here, will remain in the city several
days. He ia favorably Impressed with
the field and with our water poRer aud
il ne locates here he will put 10 g $50 900
plant and sink o twelve inch artesIHn
we'll, which wall give at least $50 horse
power for his machinery.
Since. MAJOR Cox was named as an
official guardian of the Insane he has re-
ceived q large number of publications.
for positions 10 the hospital, some of
them violently partisan aud some
of them violently otherwise. Several are
from grass widows, with aud without
children, aud others are from employees
at Indian agencies. The public seems to
imagine that the major has opened an
office distributing bszar.
1t has recently leaked out that on
Monday night last Assistant General
superintendent B ollenbeck and Division
Superintendent Oliver, together with
several other Northwestern officials, wei
ted Yankton by special train, remaiued
over night aud left again on Tuesday
morning without 'srousiug any in
quisitiyeness on the part OF anybody
Whist they were here for is a secret, blS
they heli q confeb with ssveral promi-
nent eitiz ms, who'ar mum OF the sub
ject.
+ Harry Wynn is having o peck of tTou-
ole over q hog. He recently received 8
car load o; hogs from Gsygllle and when
the porkers we're being unloaded one of
them strayed off and laid down III 9
weed patch belonging TO a women. The
woman surrounded the hog and nov has
1t locked up Mr.. Wynn has began pro.
ceedings to recover the property
He tried both argument and persuasion
J on the woman, but without
avail and he now proposes to legally
compel the hog to leave the premises OF
Its retainer,
The Chinese students who are to ap
pear in Yankton next Tuesday, at the
q Congregational church, are a travelling
Organization who have won q high place
in the entertainment CIRCLES of the east
r They are genuine Cninamen and the!
give to their audiences a correct idea o
} Chinese customs, religion, music anc
! styles OF dress. These ex explanations are
made to correct O superstition, quite
"a general, that the Chinese students arr
. TO be represented by home talent. Thit
is all wrong. They were imported for
the occasion.
Z. Karr, who came up from Vermillior
yesterday, says be has completed hi
3 artesian we'll contract there With til
trustees of the university. He has drtl!
50 ed q hole 700 feet deep and OF that dis
tence down there is no indication OF ar
tesian water. The formation into whicl
he has drilled is gwen geologically 81
OOilblS, Wulcu UoIo16S oonoiooinoA5 "
30 low the cretaceous, found in the Yank
ton neiehborhood, The university trus
tees have contracted with Messrs, Ken
= & Richey to continue drilling. and the
IS are proceeding downward. There i
now not 80 much hope of a~rteeian waite
dy as of natural gas.
ay T.. M. Way. the reetaursnter, ssye /
has never seen q more obnoxious pI
than j. w. Pllmoie, his partner, VII
skipped from Yapkton between Monde
and Tuesday Of this week, taking vii
zen him $l34 in money and leaving $40 wor'
of unpaid debts to be liquitated by sh
town pump. Mr. Way trusted Pillmoi
to make the deposits IN the bank, eac
day, and he says Mr.. Fillmore deposit'
om the money 10 his Jeans and even DIRE
p'1 out the nest egg already in the ban
Fillmore He'd in the night and for aug
ne that is known, is still going, He formeE
lived in Wisconsin and it is probst
that he will go straight to his Old hon
.ay
of Mrs. e. j. Morrow has returned fro
the cast where she has purchased g lar
nix and complete stock of fashionable 8int
at millinery and invites the ladies to OF
Az and examine. They will fad the late